I have two 4 month old roos that are coming of age and have both started behaving very aggressively towards other chickens in the flock. They are tag teaming the others, dragging them around by the wings, biting constantly and causing general chaos. I have separated them from the rest but is...
I currently have 20 EE chicks, 13 cockerels and 7 pullets, all 10 weeks old. They have all gotten along together till now. One cockerel has been aggressive to one specific pullet. He chases her and also bites down by her comb and drags her around. We were going to butcher all the extra cockerels...
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I'm needing some advice for introducing younger chickens. I have 3 standard 10 week old pullets and two 10 week old Seramas. They grew up together and are perfectly happy together but I'm wanting to eventually move the 3 bigger girls in with my existing flock consisting of four 7 month old...
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We have a English blue Orpington Cockerol (about 4 months) that we got not that long ago along with two pullets. He had been overly aggressive with the pullets so we were trying to introduce him to the older hens and this happened. Both of them were bleeding and that went on until...
I love him, but today he poofed up, pecked and flew at me! Usually I can just hold him like a cat, but he was just being a jerk today! Anyone know how to calm him down?